Lord’s Day 14, 2020

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? —Hebrews 9:11–14

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. —Hebrews 4:16

The Work that Saves.

Done is the work that saves! Once and for ever done. Finished the righteousness That clothes the unrighteous one. The love that blesses us below Is flowing freely to us now.

The sacrifice is o’er, The veil is rent in twain, The mercy-seat is red With blood of victim slain; Why stand we then without, in fear? The blood divine invites us near.

The gate is open wide, The new and living way Is clear and free and bright, With love and peace and day; Into the holiest now we come, Our present and our endless home.

Upon the mercy-seat The High Priest sits within; The blood is in his hand Which makes and keeps us clean. With boldness let us now draw near, That blood has banished every fear.

Then to the Lamb once slain Be glory, praise, and power, Who died and lives again, Who liveth evermore; Who loved and washed us in his blood, Who made us kings and priests to God.